The Error World: An Affair with Stamps
- ISBN-10
- 0151013969
- ISBN-13
- 9780151013968
- Category
- Authors, English
- Pages
- 247
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Simon Garfield
Description
In a thoughtful memoir, the acclaimed author of The End of Innocence intertwines his lifelong obsession with philately, his pursuit of his collection of rare stamp errors, a passionate love affair and the disintegration of his marriage, and a meditation on the rarities, absences, and impulse to possess that define human life.
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